One Utah

Although dated by about a week, this video gives us an historical record of a popular and contemporary characterization of todays Republicans.

See more Adam “Ghost Panther” McKay videos at Funny or Die
As anyone who’s paying attention knows, Republicans have a serious identity crises of their own making. I never would have guessed back [...]

A new site has popped up in the Blogosphere:
Save Me From My Senator - Chris Buttars Scares Me.
It was started as a result of dire frustration by a constituent of his. It’s chock full of really useful information, including
101 Reasons to Get Rid of Chris Buttars, Tools for Citizens to use in the Fight, [...]

On Capitol Hill, GOP partisans representing Big Oil are staging political theater in support of more offshore petroleum leasing. Senator John McCain opposed offshore oil production for years but changed his position a few weeks ago in exchange for $1.1 million in campaign contributions. Never mind that market speculation and the Bush administration’s [...]

Mike Pence carried the water for the Bush administration in this hearing. Early on he quotes the Constitution on impeachment and concludes, “no one has accused the president of treason.”
He’s wrong. I do accuse this president of treason because he has admitted treason through words and actions. He should hang.
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Update: COINTELPRO Comes to My Town: My First-Hand Experience With Government Spies

I had to confirm my certainty that this happened under a Republican Governor. And of course it did; “…police surveillance of anti-war and anti-death penalty activists while Republican Bob Ehrlrich was governor.” You can see the current Democratic Governor’s statement here.
ACLU of [...]

AP | BEN FELLER | July 14, 2008 at 10:46 AM
WASHINGTON — In another push to deal with soaring gas prices, President Bush on Monday will lift an executive ban on offshore drilling that his stood since his father was president. But the move, by itself, will do nothing unless Congress [...]

Thanks Scalia. This is what happens when gun nuts are allowed out. The FACT is, this kind of thing happens everyday in America. What does NOT happen everyday is that someone’s life is saved as the result of individual hand gun ownership (Alan Korwin thinks it happens at least 547 times per [...]

Mike Huckabee was not my candidate this year. He won’t be my candidate in the future. But his strong electoral performance on a shoestring made him one of the most intriguing candidates of 2008. In some ways he was sounding like a Republican populist, perhaps because he was running against Governor Romney, [...]

Via Glenn Greenwald, here’s a glimpse of the Joys of Washington Bipartisanship as President Bush rejoiced in yet another humiliation of the Democrats this afternoon in the Rose Garden.
This one is special, signing the bill keeps Bush from being prosecuted on multiple felony counts for at least 30 violations of the Foreign Intelligence [...]

From The Onion. h/t James Lyon
Bush Tours America To Survey Damage Caused By His Disastrous Presidency
It is with great reluctance that I post such irreverent material about our President. He is after all our President. But you have to admit, he IS funny in a so-stupid-can’t-help-it kind of way.
…Which reminds me that very [...]

We Utahns of the more mainstream political persuasion (nationally at least) have a certain affection for Utah’s Sutherland Institute Director Paul Mero. He is after all, exceptionally lovable, friendly and affectionately earnest in his radically conservative positions. Most endearing is his forgiving nature and patience in the face of our, at times, rough edges.

In [...]

Jesse Helms died at the age of 86. He served 30 years in the US Senate. He was a shrewd manipulator of Senate rules and a fearless champion of racism in its most honest form. Helms was also a rare breed - a truly honest bigot. He didn’t dress up his [...]